Six Years Experience as a Book Agent in California. Including My Trip from New York to San Francisco via Nicaragua. Introduction by Madeleine B. Stern; Note by Kathleen Walkup.

Likins, Mrs. J. W.

Published by The Book Club of California, San Francisco, 1992

About this Item

400 copies printed. (xxvi), 165pp.; facsimile of original cover title precedes title page; 8vo; rust cloth with white spine label printed in black; eight facsimile black & white illustrations throughout the text. Designed by Leda Black at Black Swan Letterpress; typeset by Kathleen Burch at Burch Typografica. In plain white paper jacket with later printed spine label. Back of the jacket with some faint spots of tanning. Shortly after her arrival in San Francisco from Ohio in 1868 the author found employment as a book canvasser for two of San Francisco's leading bookseller-publishers, H. H. Bancroft and Anton Roman. Her territory included San Francisco and more far afield, Gilroy, Sacramento, and Santa Cruz. Originally published in San Francisco in 1874 her book provides a fascinating account of an intrepid and perceptive woman. (from BCC 200th Book, 198). Seller Inventory # 9820

Bibliographic Details

Title: Six Years Experience as a Book Agent in ...

Publisher: The Book Club of California, San Francisco

Publication Date: 1992

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Edition: Limited Edition.